Five Fast Facts About Milk

I recently posted about this subject on my facebook page and thought it would be a good idea to put it in blog form and share this info with you all.  

Have you seen the recent ads for Dairy Pure? With their five-point purity promise, It sounds like their milk is the best of the best! You’re probably slamming your fist on the table shouting, “To heck with this other milk I have been buying!  They don’t have a purity promise; I need a purity promise!”

  
 While Dairy Pure is super nutritious milk from super awesome dairy farmers, so is ALL milk.  Yup, that’s right…milk is milk.  Any kind, any brand.  There is no wrong choice in the dairy case!  So spend a little more of your hard earned moo-la (pun INtended) on milk with a label or don’t.  The choice is yours.

Here are Five Fast Facts about ALL milk:

1. While some farmers may choose NOT to use artificial hormones to help direct nutrients to the udder and increase production, others do and it’s is perfectly safe for the animals and for you. You can learn more about how and why farmers (like me!) use rBST here.

2. ALL milk is tested for antibiotics.  No farmer wants to produce an unsafe product for their family or yours, so they take antibiotics very seriously and only use them when necessary.  Farmers aren’t just throwing antibiotics around willy nilly, they work with their veternarian and pay close attention to withdrawl periods.  All milk and meat is tested for antibiotics and is disposed of if it tests positive.  Read more about Cows, Antibiotics and You. 

3. ALL milk is highly regulated and tested for safety and quality. Whether it is on the dairy farm or at the creamery, milk is regularly tested.  Read more about how we test milk at our farm by reading this post.

4. Dairy farmers know that in order to be profitable they need to raise happy, healthy cows. Part of this includes feeding the cows a nutritious diet. In fact, many dairy farmers work with a nutritionist to produce a quality diet for their animals! 
    

   Our girls enjoying some freshly mixed feed!

    

5. ALL milk is shipped cold and fresh. If the milk wasn’t shipped cold, it would start to go bad…duh. FUN FACT: The milk you find in your grocery store was likely still in the cow less than 48 hours ago!  It is kind of crazy when you think about it, isn’t it?  Talk about farm fresh!

Now that you know ALL milk is safe, nutritious, fresh and from farmers who care, you can feel comfortable buying Dairy Pure milk or ANY brand you choose. 

CHEERS!